The environment bites back.
the oil industry
Harper’s pipeline nightmare
What kind of year in politics is it going to be? Very likely another year (or at least 10 months) of gridlock at the federal level with no sign of any so-called game changer on the horizon.
A healing walk around the tar sands dead zone
Organized and led by Indigenous people and open to everyone.
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A healing walk around the tar sands dead zone
I had the honour of participating in a healing walk through the Alberta tar sands on Sunday, Aug. 14. Organized and led by Indigenous people and welcome to everyone, roughly a 100 walkers trekked through a 13-kilometre loop that could be called the Ground Zero of Alberta's dirty oil industry. We witnessed the images you are probably familiar with by now: the industrial plants spewing smoke into the air, the enormous tailings ponds that are deadly to all life, the moonscape denuded of trees or anything green.
You, me and disasters in the deep sea
For those of us who live far away from the Gulf of Mexico, the oily videos and doomsaying headlines are getting to be a bit wearying and are drifting to the back of the news.
After all, we get stunned by the repetition after a while and in the end we can live with environ mental disaster as long as it hap pens elsewhere and as long as it doesn't really affect us. In this case, specifically as long as oil prices don't go up. So far so good, right?
Well, maybe not. Here's the other side of the story. Among the energy institutes, oil economists and other thinkers, the question is whether we have in fact come to the long-predicted tipping point with regard to oil production and prices.
Enbridge wants oil tankers to travel B.C. coast
May 27, 2010 | For Immediate Release
SOINTULA, B.C. - On May 27 Enbridge escalated conflict on the coast when they took steps to break the First Nations ban on tanker traffic by applying to the federal government for approval of their Northern Gateway pipeline.
"Enbridge poses a grave threat to the future of coastal First Nations' way of life," says Art Sterritt, Executive Director of the Coastal First Nations. "We will not allow Enbridge to do to us what BP has done to the people of Louisiana."
Sterritt said Enbridge is unfamiliar with the strength and commitment of B.C.'s First Nations.
"We do not intend to lose this fight. We are not willing to roll the dice with our children's future. The stakes are too high."
Drilling for oil: The cost of needing our fix
When the Gulf of Mexico oil rig blew, there was probably not a fisherman or fish plant operator in western Nova Scotia, where I live, who didn't have the same cold flash: an oil rig blows on Georges Bank; the enormous tides of the Bay of Fundy suck half the oil up and down twice a day, polluting everything from Cape Cod to Lockeport and right up to Moncton; while the other half is locked in the "gyre" of currents that goes round and round over one of the world's best fishing grounds
Mulcair and energy McCarthyism
The high-and-mighty vitriol which greeted Tom Mulcair's comments last week about the downside of oil-powered currency appreciation is lamentable (repeating the over-the-top reaction to Dalton McGuinty's similar comments a few weeks ago). Mulcair made two modest and empirically substantiated statements: the loonie is sky-high as a result of the oil boom in Alberta's bitumen sands (I doubt you'd find a single currency trader on Bay Street who would disagree with that), and that overvaluation is causing negative side-effects on other industries and regions in Canada.
Fracking and its impact on groundwater: Lessons from Alberta
Mar 21 2012 - 7:00pm
Mar 21 2012 - 9:00pm
Location
Telus Building, Room 134, University of Alberta
Corner of 111 Street and 87 Avenue
Edmonton, AB T6G 2M7Canada
Phone:
780-430-0608
53° 31' 22.4904" N, 113° 31' 4.1988" W
See map: Google Maps
Presented by the Council of Canadians Edmonton Chapter, co-sponsored by the Parkland Institute.
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